The GovBrief

For the Defense Department, designing with the user in mind means designing for the warfighter, offering them the tools they need to protect and serve effectively. No one knows more about the importance of UX for the defense sector better than Colt Whittall, chief experience officer for the U.S. Air Force.

On this episode of The Federal Innovator podcast, Whittall joins co-hosts Tim Irvine, managing director and lead at Accenture Federal Digital Studio, and Stephanie Wander, deputy director and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council to talk through what outstanding UX looks like, how bad UX can prove a barrier to mission success and what it takes to bring user-centric design to life for the federal government.

Check out what they have to say!

As we look out at an uncertain future that many are calling the “next normal,” agencies need to consider how employees and data will remain secure in what will most certainly be a more digital future.

Host and GovExec President Constance Sayers digs into those challenges with Intel's Federal Chief Technology Officer, Steve Orrin, on this episode of our Leadership Voices podcast, an ongoing series where industry experts offer insights, tips, and know-how to help government leaders solve their greatest challenges.

Check it out to learn more about today's top security challenges for government — and what agencies can do to solve them!

How can agencies capitalize on the investments and platforms they are making now in order to better serve the citizen and in the future?

That's the question host and GovExec President Constance Sayers will dig into on today’s episode of The Digital Citizen, a three-part podcast series from ServiceNow in partnership with Government Executive Media Group’s Studio 2G. Joining her to talk through these challenges is Chris Dilley, CTO for State and Local Government at ServiceNow and his colleague Tom Yeatts, Global Head of State, Local, and Regional Government Solutions.

What does it take to manage a hybrid workforce without creating data silos that can hamstring agencies? And what types of platforms offer agencies the tools they need to meet today’s challenges while allowing them room to modernize for tomorrow’s needs, as well?

Those are exactly the questions host and GovExec President Constance Sayers will dig into on today’s episode of The Digital Citizen podcast. Joining her to talk through these challenges is Chris Dilley, CTO for State and Local Government at ServiceNow and his colleague Tom Yeatts, Global Head of State, Local, and Regional Government Solutions.

Today, local governments everywhere face the same challenge: How to deliver billions of vaccines to those that need them, quickly, efficiently, and with finite resources. To do so requires intense and precise workflow management. So, what tools and techniques can prove useful in the quest to vaccinate the U.S. population? How can they effectively connect workflows and information across organizations and systems to effectively distribute, track and monitor vaccine distribution? And, as agencies look out at the next normal, what other types of tools will they need to safely and effectively manage a hybrid workforce and a more digitally savvy constituent population?

Those are exactly the questions our host Constance Sayers, president of GovExec, will dig into on the first episode of The Digital Citizen with Chris Dilley, CTO for State and Local Government at ServiceNow and his colleague Tom Yeatts, Global Head of State, Local, and Regional Government Solutions.

Check out what they have to say!

It’s 2021 and healthcare is a hot topic. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, government employees have been at the frontlines — distributing tests and vaccinations, answering questions about health benefit eligibility and ensuring constituents receive the care they need during these turbulent times. 

But how can we ensure federal employees are able to access the same level of care they've provided to citizens? After all, healthcare is complicated. Signing up for benefits shouldn’t be. 

Introducing “Discussions in Federal Healthcare,'' a new podcast from Blue Cross Blue Shield in collaboration with GovExec’s Studio 2G, that aims to educate federal employees on how they can take full advantage of healthcare benefits and services. On this pilot episode, GovExec's James Hanson catches up with Bill Breskin and David Yoder, two experts from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, to discuss the current healthcare landscape.

In this episode of The Roadmap to TIC 3.0, Constance Sayers, president of Government Executive Media Group, will speak with Chad Mitchell, technical solutions architect for U.S. Public Sector at Cisco and Ryan Friel, senior consulting solutions architect for the Public Sector Cloud Practice at WWT to talk through the basics of TIC 3.0, its connection with zero trust and cloud, as well as why agencies should begin to align architectures with this framework in order to strengthen cyber defenses.

In this episode of The Roadmap to TIC 3.0, Constance Sayers, president of Government Executive Media Group, will speak with Chris Hocker, systems architect at Cisco Systems and Bob Costello, strategic advisor for public sector at WWT to hone-in on how TIC 3.0 can improve network performance and manageability, cybersecurity, and operational effectiveness for federal government networks.

In this episode of The Roadmap to TIC 3.0, Constance Sayers, president of Government Executive Media Group, will speak with Chad Mitchell, technical solutions architect for U.S. Public Sector at Cisco and Michael Pfeiffer, Cloud Networking Architect at WWT to talk through how TIC 3.0 provides the flexibility necessary to enable remote workers as well as the unified communications and collaboration tools they need to remain productive.

What can artificial intelligence do for your agency? The answer to that question isn’t all that simple: it depends on a number of factors, like how your agency operates today and what your goals are for the future. AI solutions, therefore, are most effective when they’re customized to meet those specific needs.

Few organizations know this better than the Department of Defense. As the largest federal agency, DOD has made several strides to prioritize and implement AI across agencies in a way that contributes to the enhancement of national security.

In this third and final episode of Machine Momentum, Iron Bow Technologies' Jim Smid and James Ebeler discuss the important work DOD is doing to implement customizable and scalable AI solutions.